Ohanaeze Ndigbo: Innoson boss is being victimised

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has defended the Chief Executive of Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma, condemning the current travails he is being subjected to.

The group said its attention has been drawn to a court action instituted against “the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Innoson Nigeria Limited, Chief Innocent Chukwuma in which he is being charged, ostensibly, of obtaining Custom documents fraudulently.”

A statement by the Special Adviser to the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emeka Attamah said: “Cognizant of the matter being in court and without any pretence to the veracity of the case or otherwise, Ohanaeze Ndigbo views the current travails of Chief Chukwuma as another attempt at hounding another son of Igboland who, out of personal enterprise and hard work, has helped in shaping the economic and industrial fortunes of Nigeria.

“We frown at this recent attempt to obfuscate the victory won by Innoson’s Group against a leading bank. We see the current twist in the whole affair as a deliberate attempt to put Chief Chukwuma on the defensive in a matter that clearly vindicates and confers a lot of financial advantage on him. It will also taint his reputation by introducing a criminal angle to an already settled civil proceeding.

“Ohanaeze is carefully studying this discriminatory treatment of his adversaries and the law enforcement agents with a view to reviewing the patronage of our people to any economic establishment found to be associated in this new criminal assault of Chief Innocent Chukwuma.

“We will no longer do business with any organisation that denigrates the best of our people.”